GUI Slowing down program

Unity Engine
1

I am making a simple simulator game where there are three buttons and a text field but when I added the GUI the frame rate slowed to a crawl is there a way to make this thing without using the OnGUI function which I have read seems to slow it down

function OnGUI () 
{
	temp = playerBase.GetComponent("Base");
	GUI.Box (Rect (150,40,250,50), "Resources = " + temp.supplies + "\n Base HP = " + temp.baseHp);
	if(warningOn)
	{
		GUI.Box (Rect (200,200,500,30), "Not Enough Resources");
		if (timer)
		{
			counter--;
			if (counter < 0)
			{
				timer = false;
			}
		}
		else
		{
			counter = 300;
			timer = true;
			warningOn = false;
		}
	}
	
	
	if (GUI.Button (Rect (20,40,80,20), "Ball 1 50")) 
	{
		temp.make1();
	}

	if (GUI.Button (Rect (20,70,80,20), "Ball 2 100"))
	{
		temp.make2();
	}
	
	if (GUI.Button (Rect (20,100,80,20), "Ball 3 200"))
	{
		temp.make3();
	}
}
2

Check the wiki, there are a number scripts that allow you to use GUITextures instead of Unity GUI, that’s what I’ve decided to do until the current GUI system is fixed / improved. Also be sure to check out some of the other threads on the topic and the users voice entry here: http://feedback.unity3d.com/forums/15792-unity/suggestions/1604963-gc-spikes-caused-by-ongui?ref=title